S&P Global Market Intelligence Releases Suite of Alternative and Unstructured Datasets through Xpressfeed™

NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Global Market Intelligence announced the rollout of new alternative and unstructured datasets through its powerful data feed management system, Xpressfeed™. This includes the industry-leading corporate transcripts offering, supplemented by S&P Global Market Intelligence's superior metadata tagging.  In addition, the offering includes a robust suite of bank regulatory and branch level data, as well as global real-estate property level data through Xpressfeed™. Collectively, these innovative solutions are embedded with and linked to the firm's market leading quantitative and qualitative products. 

"Institutional Investors are actively seeking new sources of alternative data that can be structured for machines to help uncover relationships and new alpha generating ideas," says Warren Breakstone, Managing Director & General Manager of the Capital Markets Group of S&P Global Market Intelligence. "We are pleased to make available our deep history of corporate earnings and event transcripts, bank branch and regulatory data, along with property level REIT data over our Xpressfeed delivery platform.  These exclusive and alternative datasets include sophisticated metadata tagging that is cross referenced with the entire suite of S&P Global Market Intelligence content."

Industry-leading Transcripts

S&P Global Market Intelligence is now able to deliver, in a machine readable format, the market's largest universe of corporate transcripts sourced from earnings calls, M&A calls and industry conferences for over 8,000 active companies globally.  This latest enhancement provides sophisticated metadata tagging, with unique identifiers for people, companies, key developments and much more.  In addition to over 10 years of historical data, users can receive real time updates of live transcribed calls, with the metadata tags, through the Events Driven Alerts machine readable feed.   

Deep Industry Specific Data

S&P Global Market Intelligence now provides detailed and granular industry specific data through Xpressfeed, enabling users to perform deep quantitative company and industry analysis. Through Xpressfeed, users already have access to GAAP data for over 17,500 companies across the Financial Institution, Real Estate, Energy, Metals & Mining and Media industries, with history back as far as 1990 for US companies and 2005 for Non-US companies. In addition to fundamental financial data, clients are now able to access bank regulatory data for 45,000 U.S., Mexican and Columbia bank holding companies, bank subsidiaries and credit unions, as well as Branch locations and deposit data for over 100,000 US banks & credit unions, with history back to 2001.

For users focused on Real Estate, S&P Global Market Intelligence now offers asset-level data for over 100,000 global properties, with history for the US back to 1995, through Xpressfeed.  All this data is linked with unique metadata tagging, allowing clients to easily integrate this data with the other traditional datasets they use today. 

David Coluccio, Head of Enterprise Solutions at S&P Global Market Intelligence added: "Our primary goal is to deliver differentiated products, linked to unique identifiers, to make it easy for our clients to integrate, utilize and analyze our data.  By linking these products to our other quantitative and qualitative datasets through Xpressfeed, clients will now be able to easily find and evaluate signals that the market has not been able to identify before."

S&P Global Market Intelligence's Quantamental research team also recently published a white paper on Natural Language Processing, which demonstrates the ability to utilize transcript data for key alpha signals. This latest paper complements banking and real estate research reports published earlier this year highlighting the quantitative investment value of the deep industry specific content.

To learn more about Xpressfeed and the new product rollouts, please click here.

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